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? asked in Politics & GovernmentGovernment · 8 years ago

Is our President geographically illiterate?

Obama to Leno: “If we don’t deepen our ports all along the gulf in places like Charleston, South Carolina, Savannah, Georgia, and Jacksonville, Florida… If we don’t do that, those ships are going to go someplace else. We’ll lose jobs. Businesses won’t locate here.”

Note: None of these ports are in the Gulf of Mexico

Update:

@JV: How do I " connect the dots" on the 57 states comment?

Update 2:

@JV: How do I " connect the dots" on the 57 states comment?

Update 3:

@JV: I saw the video of the 57 states speech. Any rational person viewing it would say that he said "fifty-seven" not " fifty-uh" You are really reaching with that explanation.

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  • Anonymous
    8 years ago
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    He doesn't even know how many states there are, how can we expect him to know where the cities and ports are located in within the United States.

  • 8 years ago

    Only a complete Idiot would mis-hear President Obama, who was saying The Gulf AND in places" a lot of people use verbal short cuts on the assumption that their audience is smart enough to "connect the dots, the majority listening to President Obama speak understood him perfectly. It is much like President Obama's "you did not build it ---" speech, too often Obama ignores the fact that certain people have selective hearing and are ready to jump all over his every word.

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    PS Either fatigue on the campaign trail OR fifty states and Guam, American Samoa, Puerto Rico, The US Virgin Islands, The District of Columbia, such places as Midway and Wake Island, in other words States & Territories and/or - - - Obama does stutter andmost rational people can understand how fifty uh and can sound like fifty seven

  • 8 years ago

    -Hey; At LEAST He got the Country Right ! Half the Teenagers in the U.S. couldn't find those cities north of Cuba ! ;)

    Source(s): 3 more years.
  • ?
    Lv 6
    8 years ago

    The head knuckle-dragger has to check with one of his aides when he gets up in the morning just to find out which way is up.

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  • 8 years ago

    Yes he is looking terrorist in Afghanistan but just get to blow children´s bus in Pakistan

  • 8 years ago

    You mean like Bush thanked the Austrian soldiers (they don have soldiers there) for their duty in Iraq when he visited AUSTRALIA.

  • Anonymous
    8 years ago

    nope your talking about George Bush

  • ?
    Lv 4
    8 years ago

    No, are you attention deprived

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